John Trueswell | University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychology

Professor; Graduate Group Chair

Department:

Psychology

Education:

BA, Cognitive Science, University of Rochester; Ph.D., Psychology, University of Rochester

Address:

3401 Walnut St., Room 409C

Phone:

215-898-0911

Email:

trueswel@psych.upenn.edu; dgs@psych.upenn.edu

Personal Page

Research Themes:

Developmental Psychology

Language and Communication

Memory and Learning

Sensation and Perception

Specific Research Areas:

Word learning, grammar learning, and real-time language comprehension

Research Synopsis:

I'm interested in word learning, grammar learning, and real-time anguage comprehension. In much of my research, I record the eye movements of children and adults while they hear spoken utterances hat describe the visual world around them.

Dr. Trueswell will be accepting graduate students for admission in fall 2012.

Representative Courses:

PSYC 151 Cognitive Psychology
PSYC 600 Language

Appointments:

Psychology Graduate Group; Linguistics Graduate Group

Advisees:

Christine Boylan [Psychology Graduate Student]

Representative Publications:

Trueswell, J.C. & Kim, A.E. (1998). How to prune a garden-path by nipping it in the bud: Fast-priming of verb argument structures. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 102-123.

Trueswell, J.C., Sekerina, I., Hill, N.M. & Logrip, M.L. (1999). The kindergarten-path effect: studying on-line sentence processing in young children. Cognition, 73, 89-134.

Snedeker, J. & Trueswell, J.C. (2004). The developing constraints on parsing decisions: The role of lexical-biases and referential scenes in child and adult sentence processing. Cognitive Psychology, 49(3), 238-299.

Kaiser, E. & Trueswell, J.C. (2004). The Role of discourse context in the processing of a flexible word-order language. Cognition, 94(2) 113-147.

Trueswell, J. C., & Gleitman, L. R. (2007) Learning to parse and its implications for language acquisition, in G. Gaskell (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Psycholing. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

Trueswell, J.C. (2008). Using eye movements as a developmental measure within psycholinguistics. In I.A. Sekerina, E.M. Fernández, and H. lahsen (eds.) Language Processing in Children. John Benjamins.

Novick, J.M., Thompson-Schill, S. & Trueswell, J.C. (2008). Putting lexical constraints in context into the visual-world paradigm. Cognition, Volume 107, Issue 3, 850-903.

Papafragou, A., Hulbert, J. & Trueswell, J.C. (2008). Does language guide event perception? Evidence from eye movements. Cognition, Volume 108, Issue 1, July 2008, Pages 155-184.